AMD HD6870 card crashes drivers when during ONLY steam games

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When playing ONLY STEAM GAMES with my AMD card in i will randomly experience a game freeze for about 8 seconds then screen goes black and then restores and shows display drivers crashed and recovered. Sometimes it happens every few minutes sometimes large gaps between sometimes it becomes unplayable. I have a 20$ cheapie nivida card i bought to troubleshoot with and this card resolves the issue but is too poor of a card to use for gaming (BY FAR LOL). When my AMD card is in i can do whatever i want on my pc, zero limit to graphics 100% flawless, BUT the second i play a game through the steam client i being to experience this crash. I can play other games not downloaded through steam and i have zero issues AND i can throw in the cheapie nivida card to also stop the display crashes. Anyone hear of this issue before?
 
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started experiencing the issue while playing path of exile a game i downloaded through steam client this was about a year or 2 ago, bought a shit card to continue playing that game and problem solved. then i went back to league of legends so i threw in the problem card (far nicer card then then 20$ quick fix i had in)and had NOT 1 SINGLE graphics issue for 2 years under regular daily use. Now as of 2 weeks ago i began playing dark souls 2 a game i downloaded through steam and wallah the same exact issue is back so i throw in my shitty 20$ card and it fixes the problem but it is far far far too low end to support the game for regular play. The card worked for approx 2 years between these incidents and only occred while playing steam games, doesn't this rule out a hardware issue?
 
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